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- From: gsnow@clark.edu (Gary Snow)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.video
- Subject: Re: 16 bit graphics or cpu?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.224329.9024@clark.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 22:43:29 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.013710.10535@netcom.com> <1992Dec22.181725.4145@clark.edu> <3!t21a=@rpi.edu>
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- In article <3!t21a=@rpi.edu> petitc@nuge111.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit) writes:
- >gsnow@clark.edu (Gary Snow) writes:
- >
- >>Huh, isn't the 80487 a math co-processor, why would your main processor be
- >>turned off by adding one?
- >
- > Because Intel's 'math coprocessor' is really the entire CPU. The 486SX, if
- >I heard correctly, just has a pin or two bent so you can't use the FP math.
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- Sounds sort of stupid to me, if it costs them the same amount the make the
- 486SX as it does to make the standard 486, why bother........
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- Gary
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